1. George Washington had a false set of teeth made from hippo tusks,
2. Lifeboats were removed from the Titanic so first-class passengers had more room to stroll the deck. That decision loft more than 1,000 people strarided aboard the sinking ship.
3. To help win one of the most Important battles of World War II, the British and U.5, militaries created fake army camps to confuse the Germans.
4. When Christopher Columbus reached the Americas. a great exchange occurred. The Europeans brought horses and pigs and returned with potatoes and turkeys.
5. In the United States, color TV was introduced in 1951.
6. Men iri ancient Rome didn't like to have hair on their arms. They went to special shops to have it removed.
7. The first "e-book" in the United States was the Declaration of Independence. which was made ayailable on a computer network back in the 1970s.
8. A man who lived during the third or fourth century B.C. used pine resin and plant oil to gel his hair. His preserved body was found in a peat bog.
9. In 1415, the Chinese reached Africa by boat before the Europeans, Admiral Zheng traveled with 28,000 men and more than 250 boats.
10. The word "alphabet" comes from two Greek words: alpho and beta. The ancient Greek alphabet his 24 letters,
11. Many immigrants arriving to the United States entered at Ellis Island, New York. Some 17 million people came through Elis Island from 1892 to 1924.
12. The Trans-Alaska Pipeline carries oil from above the Arctic Circle to the Alaska coast. Completed in 1977, it's 800 miles (1,287 km) lone.
13. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt had more than 40 pets.
14. People during ancient. China's Shann 100HISTORY FACTS REPEATING WORTH Dynasty read the bones of sheep and oxen for quidance.
15. The city of St. Petersburg, Russia, suffered through a g0o-day siege during World War IL.
16. There are nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1790, when the first court met, the justices wore white wigs, which was the fashion at the time.
17. In 1848, the United States signed a treaty with Mexico and gained land that now makes up all or part of eight states. The treaty also ended the Mexican-American War.
18. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark traveled for more than two years to chart America's wilderness in the early 180os.
19. The first reported bank robbery in U.S. history occurred in 1831 when the City Bank of New York was robbed.
20. Washington, D.C., became the capital of the United States in 1792. A French artist and engineer, Pierre L'Enfant, carefully planned the city.
21. Portugal was known as a powerful empire built on trade from oceangoing ships. When Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama first arrived in India, however, the Indian princess didn't want to trade anything for the goods he had brought.
22. Florence Nightingale, who lived in the 19th century, helped establish nursing as a respectable caraer. Her parents didn't want her to become a nurse; they wanted her to get married instead.
23. Camels that carried goods on the Silk Road linking China to the West could smell water underneath the Taklamakan Desert.
24. In the 1800s, a reporter went to Africa to try to locate a European named David Livingstone, who had spent years mapping Africa's rivers and lands. When he found him, accounts say he said the famous phrase, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume."
25. The Chinese created toothbrushes in the 14005 by plucking bristles from Siberian hogs and fastening them onto handles.
26. The 132 rooms in the White House have changed throughout the years. The first president to live there was John Adams in 1800,
27. The late Princess Diana of England had two wedding dresses in case the first one was revealed before her wedding to Prince Charles.
28. The Pony Express was used to carry mail across the United States. At its peak, it had 80 riders and more than 40o horses.
29. Pakistan used to be divided in two: East and West Pakistan. In 1971 East Pakistan broke off and became Bangladesh.
30. The Romans called the passageways to a theater or colosseum, vormitoria. These passages were so efficiently designed that Rome's packed so.000-seat Colosseum could empty in 15 minutes.
31. The Chinese built a 2.500-mile (4.000-km) -long pipeline to carry natural gas. It crosses 37 rivers and 3 mountain ranges.
32. In 1931, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a seventh-century Anglo- Saxon ship in a grassy hill. It contained a nobleman's helmet made of iron, bronze, and tin-one of only three ever found in England.
33. England's Queen Elizabeth I refused King Philip of Spain's offer of marriage-and would later defeat Philip's armada in one of the most important naval battles in world history
34. Before Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution made the Galapagos Islands famous, they veere pirate hideouts.
35. In 1998. Canada's first diamond mine started production. Today, some 15 percent of all diamonds come from Canada.
36. The first European known to visit Madagascar arrived there because his ship had blown off course.
37. A fire during the War of 1812 burned many of the Library of Congress's books.To help make up for the loss, Congress purchased books from Thomas Jefferson's collection
38. Within the span of one year-1960-17 formier European colonies became Independent nations in Africa:
39. In 1848, gold was discovered in California, U.S.A., causing the Gold Rush. Huge numbers of peaple traveled to the area to try their luck at finding gold.
40. During the Civil War, the Union army was nearly twice the size of the Confederate army.
41. Jamestown, Virginia, became the first permanent British settlement in North America in 1607. The harsh winter of 1609 killed many of the colonists, and only 60 out of 214 survived.
42. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr's mother was a schoolteacher. His father was a Baptist, minister
43. The Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas, was built in the 19th century, It shortened the trip between India and the United Kingdom by 6,000 miles (9,660 km).
44. South Africa named an armored combat vehicle used in the military after the honey badger, which is a tough weasel that wfil ppen bees' nests to get to the larvae.
45. Nazi Germany controlled France for most of WWIL. French resistance fighters worked to Internupt German communication and supply lines.
46. In ancient Egypt, landowners' boundaries were marked with stones, and owners had to sevear they didn't move them to increase their plot.
47. The Norse explorer Leif Ericsson heard a story that ship-owner Bjarni Herjólfsson had sailed off course and spotted land and forests. Leif bought Bjarmi's boat and landed in North America around A.D. 1000.
48. Ancient Greeks had dinner parties featuring roasted birds, snais, and grasshoppers.
49. The great Frankish ruler Charlemagne was a noted patron of learning, and mastered several languages, but could never learn to write properly.
50. Canada's Nunavut territory has a caribou, a narwhal, arnd an igloo on its coat of arms.
51. American explorer Henry Hudso's crew turmed against him and put Hudson, his son, and anyone loyal to them in a boat without pars or food. No one knows what happened to them.
52. Aztec boys had their hair cut at age ten, but a section of hair was left long. This piece was cut off once the boy had taken his first prisoner during a battle.
53. King Kamehameha of Hawaii was hidden in a cave as a boy so that he wouldn't be killed,
54. Since the 19th century Switzorland has been meutral in all wars.
55. At the age of three, children in ancient Greece were given miniature jugs to mark the end of their babyhood.
56. Camp cooks for cowboys in the American West were known as "cookies." They were also called bean masters and biscuit shooters.
57. British leader Winston Churchill originally used the term"iron curtain" to describe the nondemocratic nations of Eastern Europe after World War II. At the time, barbed-wire fencing even separated some gardens into two sides.
58. The Opet Festival in ancijent Egypt Jasted for as long as 27 days. It celebrated the flooding of the Nie.
59. The highest battlefield in the world is Jocated on a glacier between India and Pakistan. Troops have battled from time to time since 1984 through blizzards and bitter cold, but a cease-fire was called in 2003.
60. Kenya's motto, "Harambee!" means "let's puli together." The country's first president, Jomo Kenyatta, who was elected in 1964, introduced the term.
61. In 1870, an inventor unveiled a short subway tunnel with one car in New York City. It wasn't until 1904. however, that the New York subway first opened.
62. Dice playing was so frowned upon by German authorities in the medeval period, that in 1452. aithorities in Nuremberg burned 42.000 dice.
63. In the late 1400s, European explorers came to the ancient kingdom of Benin in today's Nigeria looking for gold. Since the kingdom lacked gold, its people wore necklaces made from coral.
64. Ethiopia is the only African country never colonized.
65. The country of Chile made slavery illegal in 1823-42 years before the end of the American Civil War.
66. Ulysses S. Grant was fined for speeding down a Washington, D.c.U.S.A. street in a horse-drawn carriage.
67. The capital city of Ireland, Dublin, wasn't founded by the Irish it was founded by Vikings.
68. Roman emperors wore wreaths made from leaves and branches of the laurel tree on their heads instead of crowns,
69. In the United States, people used to think tomatoes were poisonous, so in 1820 a man proved they weren't by eating one in public.
70. In ancient China, diferent dynasties Created rufes about dothing colors. During and after the Sui Dynasty, for instance, only the emper01s Could wear yellow.
71. When the Beatles went to India in 1967, the first to return to England was Ringo Starr, the drummer, who complained that the food was too spicy.
72. The "S" in President Harry S. Truman doesn't stand for a name.
73. Sweden built a great warship in 1628, but it sank before it ever made it to sea. Today, you can see it in a museum.
74. English explorer Sir Francis Drakelooted Spanish ships he encountered on his voyages. He shared the treasure he took with the Qseen of England, Elizabath L
75. The first toilet recorded in history is more than 2,800 years old. King Minos of the Mediterranean island of Crete used it.
76. The Soviet Union's (now Russia) first McDonald's opened in 1991 in Moscow. It was the largest McDonald's in the world at that tíme.
77. The Native American princess Pocahontas saved the life of John Smith, who was a leader of the Jamestöwn Colony ini Virginia.
78. Frederick Douglass disguised himself as a sallor to escape siavery.
79. Nigerla launched its first satellite into space in 2003. It was carried on a Russian rocket.
80. People in ancient China paid taxes, but they were in the form of grain or working for the government.
81. French explorers settled in Canada, and today Montreal is the second largest French-speaking city in the world.
82. SpongeBob SquarePants began as a TV show on Nickelodeon in 1999.
83. The ancient Greeks used the stars to navigate their boats.
84. The Black Death began in China and the interior of Asia in the 1300s, arriving in Europe when infected corpses were catapulted into a town in Crimea,
85. Cesar Chavez, a Mexican-American, campaigned for better conditions for people who worked on farms. In 1968 he went without eating for 25 days in support for the United Farm Workers,
86. Of all the countries in Europe, Denmark has the oldest royaf tine. The royal famiy began wth King Gorm mare than 1.000 years ago.
87. People watch male camels wrestle as a spectator sport in Turkey,
88. U.S. President Abraham Lincoln kept important papers inside his top hat.
89. The Dutch first settled New York City in 1612. They called it "New Armsterdam.
90. Nearly 400 years ago, the most important export in Venezuela was cocoa
91. Mount Rushmore, a mountain with four American Presidents' heads carved onto its face, took about 14 years to complete.
92. Cinco de Mayo is a holiday celebrating the Mexican defeat of the French in an 1862 battle.
93. Before he was President, Andrew Jackson was shot in the chest in an 1806 duel. He remained standing, firing and killing his opponent.
94. Spanish mission buildings In modern-day Califormia, U.S A., were made out of straw and horse droppings.
95. The ancient Greeks called outsiders "barbarians," because they couldn't understand what they were saying. To them forelgn words sounded ike "bar-bar"
96. Catherfne the Great led Russia for 30 years, but she was actually German and her birth name was Sophie.
97. President Barack Obama appeared in a 2009 Spider-Man comic book.
98. In 221 8.0. an Emperor Shi Huangdi united all of China. His name, pronounced "chin," led to the name "China"
99. Sandwiches take their name from the fourth Earl of Sandwich, John Montaqu. He realized he could put a filling between two slices of bread, similar to snacks he had seen in the Middle East, and he could eat and still play cards.
100. In ancient Rome, you could buy hơt food right from people selling it from stalls on the street. Most apartments didn't have a kitchen.
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